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This extraordinary photograph captures the architectural marvel of Carl Hovgard's home, Bouldereign, in Carefree, Arizona, built around the boulders on a desert site during the height of the 1970s desert modernism movement. Designed by architect Hiram Hudson Benedict, Boulder Reign was famously used (and blown up in model form) in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point, cementing its place in both architectural and cinematic history. Set in the exclusive planned community of Carefree, which was conceived in the mid-1950s by business partners K.T. Palmer and Tom Darlington as a master-planned community, this dramatic desert residence epitomizes the bold architectural vision that defined Arizona's luxury residential development. Carefree was characterized as an upscale residential area with streets with names like Easy Street and Ho Hum Road, designed to be a haven for those seeking to escape urban life and embrace the spectacular Sonoran Desert landscape.
Slim Aarons, renowned for his evocative photographs of, as he described it, "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places," was the quintessential chronicler of high society. After serving as a war photographer, Aarons turned his lens to a new landscape: the glamorous lives of Hollywood elites, Palm Beach socialites, and jet-setting debutantes and princes. His work for society publications captured an aspirational world of leisure and luxury that defined the American upper class throughout the mid-20th century, creating images that remain timeless symbols of sophistication and style.
Every piece in our unique Slim Aarons collection is meticulously handcrafted using archival materials and printed on premium, luster photographic paper with environmentally safe inks, custom framed by skilled artisans who ensure that each work of art meets the exacting standards befitting such an iconic photograph.
